PRAISE

“Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.  While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.”

Psalms 146:1,2 KJV

Horatio G. Stafford wrote the beautiful and inspiring hymn “It Is Well with My Soul”.  “My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought—My sin—not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!”  All of our sins are forgiven because of the cross.

The cross Jesus died on was a cross of unconditional love and mercy for you and for me.  Do we praise Him all the time or just when we think about it?  Praising Jesus should be natural and an important part of our day and night.  If ever someone deserves to be praised, it is our precious Saviour.

Please join me as we praise the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.  One happy day we will have the privilege of seeing Him face to face when He comes back for us.  Are you shouting with happiness yet?  I will never understand why we can yell for our favorite team but won’t lift up our voice to praise Jesus.

It is time we stop hurting Jesus because we fail to praise Him.  When we hurt Jesus, we also hurt God.  May God have mercy on us and forgive us for the times we hurt Jesus.  Frances R. Havergal wrote a beautiful hymn about Jesus. “I Gave My Life for Thee”.  Jesus died for your sins and He died for my sins.

Jesus left His home, His Father and all that He had to come to earth to die on the cross so you and I may have the privilege of going to Heaven when we die.  What a Saviour!  What a Friend, this Jesus of Nazareth!  Worthy is the Lamb of God!

Joanne Lowe

August 7, 2018